page_title: Outline of Austria
section_title: Culture of Austria
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of Austria / Culture of Austria
caption_attribution_description: This posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was painted by Barbara Kraft at the request of Joseph Sonnleithner in 1819, long after Mozart died. Sonnleithner, who was making a "collection of portraits in oils of well-known composers" (Deutsch) wrote to Mozart's still-living sister Maria Anna ("Nannerl"), asking her to lend a picture to Kraft (a well-known artist working in Salzburg). Here is part of Nannerl's reply: ... [her friend ] Councillor von Drossdick ... sent the artist to me to see all 3 [of my] pictures [of Mozart], the one that was painted when he came back from the Italian journey is the oldest, he was then just 16 years old, but as he had just got up from a serious illness, the picture looks sickly and very yellow; the picture in the family portrait when he was 22 years old is very good, and the miniature, when he was 26 years old, is the most recent I have, I therefore shewed this one to the painter first; it seemed to me from her silence that is would not be very easy to enlarge it, I therefore had to shew her the family portrait and the other one, too. ... she wants to take her copy from the family portrait and introduce only those features from the small picture which make him look somewhat older than in the big picture." Deutsch identifies the three pictures as: "Perhaps" the portrait by Knoller, Milan 1773. [1] The family portrait by della Croce. A lost small version of the famous portrait by Joseph Lange. For present purposes, this implies that Kraft painted this with some basis to go on (and not completely out of her head, as the painter of this ridiculous picture did). Also, it tells us that Nannerl thought that the della Croce picture was "very good".
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Austria:
  Austria – landlocked sovereign country located in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The capital is the city of Vienna on the Danube River.
context_section_description: Culture of Austria
  Architecture of Austria
  Austrian architects
  Austrophile
  Cuisine of Austria
  Austrian wine
  Beer in Austria
  Festivals in Austria
  Folk dance
  Languages of Austria
  Minority languages of Austria
  Media in Austria
  Newspapers
  Radio in Austria
  Television in Austria
  National symbols of Austria
  Coat of arms of Austria
  Flag of Austria
  National anthem of Austria
  Honours system of Austria
  People of Austria
  List of Austrians
  Prostitution in Austria
  Public holidays in Austria
  Records of Austria
  Religion in Austria
  Buddhism in Austria
  Christianity in Austria
  Hinduism in Austria
  Islam in Austria
  Judaism in Austria
  Sikhism in Austria
  World Heritage Sites in Austria
caption: Posthumous painting of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1819)
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